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It’s that time of the year again. Where the lists of who was who and what was what and where was where and, you get the point. The accumulation of the years most influential, catchy, thought provoking, aggressive, emotionally destroying songs from the best artists. Now last year, Velvet didn’t produce a ‘Songs of 2015’ post. So to make up for it, this year Velvet has conjured up 150 songs that grasped 2014 by it’s special bits and took control, (because sex is power right?). Anyway, Velvet’s top 20 tracks of the year are as follows:

Little Comets – The Blur The Line and The Thickest Of Onions

Perfume Genius – Queen

Real Lies – Dab Housing

Merchandise – No You and Me

Baby Strange – Distance Yourself

Gerard Way – Action Cat

clipping – Body and Blood

NO – Leave The Door Wide Open

The Plastic Dots – Velvet Cafe

Zola Jesus – Dangerous Days

The Vacant Lots – Mad Mary Jones

Girl Band – De Bom Bom

Aztecs – Bad Blood

Carft Spells – Breaking The Angle Against The Tide

Dracula Legs – Heartburn Destination

Halls – Body Eraser / Avalanche

YOUTHCULT – What Ever Works

Peace – World Pleasure

Cherry Glazer – Had Ten Dollaz

Malachai – I Deserve To No

Now for all the songs that Velvet deemed ‘list-worthy’:

Acab Rocky – Father

All We Are – I Wear You

Alt-J – Hunger Of The Pine

The Amazing Snakeheads – Every Boy Want’s To Be Her Baby

The Amazons – Something In The Water

ArtClassSink – Time To Go (Before The Rivalry)

Attu – We Are Ordinary People

Axxa/Abraxas – I Almost Fell

Aztecs – Bad Blood

Baby Strange – Distance Yourself

Bad Breeding – Age Of Nothing

Band Of Skulls – Hoochie Coochie

Beach Party – Geronimo

Bear In Heaven – Autumn

Ben Pearce – GBH

Bernard + Edith – Poppy

The Black Cult – Riot

Bleachers – I Wanna Get Better

Bombay Bicycle Club – Carry Me

Breton – S4

Breton – National Grid

Broods – Mother & Father

Blood Red Shoes – An Animal

Broken Hands – No One Left To Meet

Broods – Never Gonna Change

The Bulletproof Bomb – Suitcase

Captivves – Don’t Defy Us

Cheatahs – Mission Creep

Cherry Glazerr – Had Ten Dollaz

Circa Waves – Know One

clipping. – Body and Blood

Coasts – Golden City

Cold War Kids – All This Could Be Yours

Craft Spells – Breaking The Angle Against The Tide

The Creases – Static Lines

Darlia – Candyman

Dead Groove – The World

Dean Wareham – The Dancer Disappears

Deathcats – Melted

Deers – Bambo

Denai Moore – I Swore

Deptford Goth – The Lovers

Disclosure – The Mechanism

Dracula Legs- Heartburn Destination

Drowners – A Button On Your Blouse

The Drums – Magic Mountain

DZ Deathrays – Gina Works At Hearts

East India Youth – Five Year Glacier

Eagulls – Amber Veins

Elephant – The Way It Is

Eliot Sumner (I Blame Coco) – Information

Erik Hassle – Pathetic

The Family Rain – Don’t Waste Your Time

Fans – All This Time

The Franklin Electric – This Is How I Let You Down

Friendly Fires & The Asphodells – Before Your Eyes

Gengahr – Fill My Gums With Blood

Gerard Way – Action Cat

Geyser – Copper Wish

Girl Band – De Bom Bom

Grace Joyner – Young Thing

The Griswolds – Beware The Dog

Halls – Body Eraser / Avalanche

Happyness – You Come To Kill Me?!

Hockeysmith – But Blood

Honeyblood – Choker

The Horrors – I See You

Horsebeach – Even

Idea For A Film – Can’t Sit Still

Is Tropical – Crawl

Iyes – Toys

Jack White – Lazaretto

Jaws – Think Too Much, Feel Too Little

Jupiter-C – Holiday

Kult Country – Trembling Moon

LadyJesus – Wicked Game

Literature – New Jacket

Little Comets – The Blur The Line and the Thickest of Onions

Lives – White Lies

LSA – Can’t Be Trusted

Lust For Youth – Armida

Lykke Li – No Rest For The Wicked

Malachai – I Deserve To No

Meg Myers – The Morning After

Merchandise – No You and Me

Merchandise – Begging For Your Life / In The City Light

The Mercy Beat – Fool For A Fool

Michael Flynn – Holy Ghose

Moats – Snakepit

Moats – Jeff Buckley

Monte Carlo – Shim

Naked (on drugs) – Single Fish Sight

Naomi Punk – Television Man

Native People – Calm Forever

The Neighbourhood – Lurk

Nero – Satisfy

NO – Leave The Door Wide Open

Odonis Odonis – New Obsession

The Orwells – Let It Burn

Owl Vision – Lightshy

Palace – Veins

Palm Honey – You

Patterns – Blood

Peace – World Pleasure

Perfume Genius – Queen

Pixel Fix – Lungs

The Plastic Dots – Velvet Cafe

Plastic Flowers – Gone Wrong

Play Dead, Run – Lion Legs

Popstrangers – Distress

Prom – Flickers

Protomartyr – Scum Rise!

Radar Eyes – Positive Feedback

Real Estate – Talking Backwards

Real Lies – Dab Housing

Roo Pane – Tiger Striped Sky

Royal Blood – Little Monster

Run Tiger Run – Hummingbird

Sales – vow

Sam Ratcliffe – The Talk We Chat

Shunkan – Wash You Away

Shy Nature – Lie Back

Skaters – Miss Teen Massachusetts

Slow Club – Tears Of Joy

Sonlux – Easy (Switch Screens) Ft. Lorde

Space Pony – Move

Street Joy – Laurel Hill

Tape Waves – Let It Go

Taylor Swift – Blank Space (Surprise?)

Tennis – 100 Lovers

The Trouble With Templeton – Soldiers (Snowbird Remix)

Thumpers – Tame

Tigercub – Blue Blood

Tomas Barfod – Pulsing

Tom Vek – Sherman (Animals In The Jungle)

TRAAMS _ Giddy

Tweens – Be Mean

Twin Graves – Last Sunset

Twin Peaks – I Found A New Way

The Vacant Lots – Mad Mary Jones

The War On Drugs – Red Eyes

White Lung – Snake Jaw

Wolf Alice – Moaning Lisa

Wolf Gang – Black River

The Wytches – Burn Out The Bruise

Young Widows, Kerosene Girls

Yellerkin – Tools

Youthblood – Camouflaged

YOUTHCULT – What Ever Works

Zola Jesus – Dangerous Days

As a final note, I’d like to raise the fact that the top two songs tackle issues of both sexual objectification and homophobia respectively. The phrase “It’s 2014” does not, remove all negative comments, physical displays or verbal displays of any social, gender, sexuality or racial issues. In 2014, there is still a strong volume of these negative attributions of society’s everyday living. Women are still raped, (as are men), and victimised for their physical appearance, “entrapping”, the male species internal instinct of sexual inclinations, leaving them terrified to live their daily lives, without the fear of being attacked for simply being a women. Lesbian, transgender and gay members of society, are still victimised and left terrified to be who they are, because of “traditional” white families dominantly, especially transgendered individuals. People of colour are still racial profiled as “violent, threatening, abusive, unintelligent”, or the new ‘n’ word, a “thug”, as a way of ensuring that police officers aren’t sentenced to prison (all eyes on Darren Wilson).

Music is but one small way of gaining the attention that these topics shouldn’t require, but still do. Feminism is still being attacked. Homosexuality and gender identity, are still being attacked. Being a ,regular, person of colour in the eyes of society, is still being attacked! These are issues, that simply cannot be ignored and those in the music industry who fight for these causes, shall be applauded and noted on this site. But these issues need your support 24/7, not when Little Comets or Perfume Genius release a new song, or another person of colour is murdered for having black skin..

Let music exponentially fill your heart and your mind, with the ideas of a positive future for society. Don’t be lead blind by music, let it guide you. All of your thoughts and opinions cannot be based upon one song. Learn about these issues, fight for civil rights everywhere, don’t stop until music is loaded with songs of celebration rather than declarations against injustice.